East Coombe Farmhouse

East Coombe Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 17th century, with alterations around 1940. It is built of plastered granite rubble with a granite stack featuring a granite ashlar chimney shaft, and has a thatched roof. The house is built down a slope and originally had a three-room plan facing south, with a parlour at the downhill (west) end and a kitchen in the centre. A large axial stack between these rooms served back-to-back fireplaces. A rear lobby entrance is located to the side of the stack, and a winder stair rises from the kitchen against the front side of the stack. The upper end room is unheated and terraced into the hillside; it was originally divided axially into two rooms, likely a pantry and dairy, and has since been rearranged into a kitchen and bathroom. The farmhouse is two storeys high, with a woodshed on the right (east) end. The exterior has an irregular four-window front featuring 19th and 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. A ground floor window on the left has been converted to French windows. The roof is hipped at each end; the right end is gable-ended with a hip over the woodstore, which sits on top of the terrace. The rear elevation has similar window openings. The main doorway has a 19th-century six-panel door, with a secondary 19th-century plank door at the service end, alongside a granite trough built into the wall. Inside, the parlour was modernised in the 19th century and shows no earlier features. The kitchen fireplace is exposed, built of granite ashlar with a hollow-chamfered surround and a side oven (relined with 19th-century brick) under the winder stair. The 3-bay ceiling has one original roughly chamfered crossbeam, with the other being a 20th-century replacement. An axial, roughly-finished beam is present in the service end. Most of the joinery is from the 19th and 20th centuries, although one 17th-century studded plank door with applied panels has been reset in the bathroom. The roof retains original A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars. East Coombe Farmhouse is notable for its mid- to late-17th-century plan and attractive valley setting, complemented by a group of granite farmbuildings, some of which are separately listed.